JULIE

He hasn’t at all.

MARIE

[Confidently.] Oh, yes! he is in love with you. [Hesitantly, romantically.] There is someone in love with me, too.

JULIE

There is? Who?

MARIE

I—I never mentioned it before, because you hadn’t a lover of your own—but now you have—and I’m free to speak. [Very grandiloquently.] My heart has found its mate.

JULIE

You’re only making it up.